The Hierarchy of European Races

Abstract

The article discusses the hierarchy of European races. The significance for the whole group of sociological sciences of the anthropological researches of de Lapouge, Ammon and their co-workers, is becoming more and more manifested. The contribution of these authors towards the science of sociology has consisted of a study of social phenomena in connection with the character of population as determined by heredity and survival. Their sharp division of European populations into three main elements; still more their characterization of these elements as distinct races; and most of all their assertions as to the greater capacity and social worth of one of these races as compared with another, may well have seemed startling and questionable to the general reading public and even to "sociologists." Europe is populated mainly by three racial groups. These three races are designated by Horno Europceus, Homo Alpinus and the Mediterranean race. These three races that can be, thus, sharply distinguished by physical peculiarities will have, it is to be presumed, each more or less pronounced psychological characteristics and tendencies.